Ch. 18&19

Question 1

A state-owned farm in the former Soviet Union managed by workers who shared the profits from their produce.

Answer 1

Collective farms

Question 2

A go-getter individual who starts and builds a business

Answer 2

Entrepreneurs

Question 3

A section of a city in which a particular minority group is forced to live as a result of either economic or social pressures

Answer 3

Ghetto

Question 4

The execution of 6 million Jews in nazi concentration camps during world war 2

Answer 4

Holocaust

Question 5

The effect an investment has in multiplying related jobs throughout the economy

Answer 5

Multiplier effect

Question 6

A people’s sense of what makes them a nation

Answer 6

National identity

Question 7

The process of selling government-owned industries and businesses to private owners who can run them more efficiently

Answer 7

Privatization

Question 8

A revolution without bloodshed

Answer 8

Velvet Revolution

Question 9

The majority of the countries of Eastern Europe have their capitols on the ________

Answer 9

Rivers

Question 10

________is the family languages that is the most common in the region.

Answer 10

Slovakia

Question 11

The holocaust resulted in the destruction of most of Poland’s __________

Answer 11

Jews

Question 12

___________is the largest natural vegetation in the region

Answer 12

Mixed forest

Question 13

The main economic activity is _________

Answer 13

Commercial fishing

Question 14

The main religion of the people of Poland is ___________

Answer 14

Roman Catholic

Question 15

1989 public opinion forced a __________ in Poland

Answer 15

Free election

Question 16

The economy of ___________ is based on industry

Answer 16

Czech Republic

Question 17

A low ____________rate is evidence that the Czech Republic has been successful in changing to a free-market economy.

Answer 17

Unemployment

Question 18

Disputes over _______ have been a cause of conflict in the Balkan Peninsula

Answer 18

Land

Question 19

Most of the European countries have a major _______ passing through them

Answer 19

River

Question 20

The pop density of Eastern Europe is high _________

Answer 20

Katowice,Poland

Question 21

Most of the European countries are ___________

Answer 21

Landlocked

Question 22

__________ has maintained their national identity, although they have been ruled by variety of people.

Answer 22

Greece

Question 23

The Czech Republic has existed as an independent nation since ______

Answer 23

1993

Question 24

The Balkan nations have shared the ordeal of foreign domination and __________

Answer 24

Internal division

Question 25

_________ is known as the garden of Eastern Europe bc of its warm summers and mild winters

Answer 25

Bulgaria

Question 26

_________ are valuable shipping routes in Eastern Europe due to its limited access to the seas

Answer 26

Rivers

Question 27

Where is the population density high in Eastern Europe?

Answer 27

Katowice and Czech Republic

Question 28

What is one cause of the ethnic clashes common in Eastern Europe?

Answer 28

Each country has a large minority group.

Question 29

One cultural trait that has helped define the polish people as a nation is?

Answer 29

Membership in Roman Catholic Church and attachment to the land Katowice, Poland

Question 30

How do the economics of the Czech Republic and Slovakia differ?

Answer 30

Czech Republic is based on industry and Slovakia is based on farming and manufacturing

Question 31

Why are the names of the cities and countries of Eastern Europe so difficult to pronounce?

Answer 31

Bc of the different language base

Question 32

How would the climate affect the movement of invading armies through Poland?

Answer 32

Bc of the harsh winters they would be unable to invade with.

Question 33

To break up into small, mutually hostile political units, as occurred in the Balkans after world war 1

Answer 33

Balkanize

Question 34

What political party candidates received most of the votes?

Answer 34

Solidarity

Question 35

____________ make travel within Eastern Europe difficult

Answer 35

Mountains

Question 36

The majority of the countries of Eastern Europe have their capitols on the _____

Answer 36

Rivers

Question 37

Allied powers?

Answer 37

USA, France, Britain, Russia, and Italy

Question 38

Axis powers?

Answer 38

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria

Question 39

After ________, many current nations were created.

Answer 39

WW1

Question 40

Who was the leader on the nazis side?

Answer 40

Hitler

Question 41

Around the ______ you would find warmer climates of Eastern Europe

Answer 41

Sea

Question 42

During which world war were the concentration camps started?

Answer 42

WW2

Question 43

What was the country that was broken into 5 different outfits that created the Balkan Peninsula?

Answer 43

Yugoslavia

Question 44

What country was separated not the Czech Republic and Slovakia?

Answer 44

Czechoslovakia